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chrome isn't open source, is it? I'd be surprised if you found the red/yellow/green logo image in chromium

akerro 8y ago
Google Chrome isn't. Chromium is, but Chromium also tends to download 3rd party close-source blobs from online resources, like the one that turns on your microphone.
- digitaLandscape 8y ago
  If by "also tends" you mean "once, as a bug", then yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409 That's a disingenuous phrasing, though.
  - vxNsr 8y ago
    Based on the link you provided it looks like it's Opt-Out not Opt-In, so it's not really a bug so much as a "feature" that open source software shouldn't have but google wanted to sneak in. based on this link [0] it's pretty clear that they did this intentionally and only changed things after user outcry. I wouldn't call that a bug. [0]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
    - msla 8y ago
      Sounds like the opt-out tracking Mozilla put in, or the advertisement for that TV show it spammed which did stupid things to text. It would be nice to have a mainstream browser which didn't try to track, advertise to, or shove "telemetry" into users.
      - Dylan16807 8y ago
        It wasn't an ad. It shut down before init if you hadn't manually set an about:config value telling it to run. It was set up in a dumb way, but people also grossly misreported. The extension was "enabled" by default but did exactly nothing except shut itself down. The behavior was all disabled by default.
        msla 8y ago
        > It wasn't an ad. Of course it was. It shilled a TV show.
kodablah 8y ago
It is open source. The icon after a quick search: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/skia/resources/images/google_chrome.ico https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/skia/resour.... Unsure if it's the one that's, say, put in the Windows app manifest. Also unsure if the repo contains all the Chrome resources, but I was under the impression that it did.
codetrotter 8y ago
Most parts of Chrome are open source under the name Chromium. Some DRM stuff in Chrome is not in Chromium and probably some other parts as well.
- gsnedders 8y ago
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/docs/c... documents the differences on Linux (given it's the only platform which regularly has both packaged). That does seem to miss the EME CDM, though (I'd write a patch for it, but I'm a bit busy at the moment!).

Google Chrome isn't. Chromium is, but Chromium also tends to download 3rd party close-source blobs from online resources, like the one that turns on your microphone.

digitaLandscape 8y ago
If by "also tends" you mean "once, as a bug", then yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409 That's a disingenuous phrasing, though.
- vxNsr 8y ago
  Based on the link you provided it looks like it's Opt-Out not Opt-In, so it's not really a bug so much as a "feature" that open source software shouldn't have but google wanted to sneak in. based on this link [0] it's pretty clear that they did this intentionally and only changed things after user outcry. I wouldn't call that a bug. [0]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
  - msla 8y ago
    Sounds like the opt-out tracking Mozilla put in, or the advertisement for that TV show it spammed which did stupid things to text. It would be nice to have a mainstream browser which didn't try to track, advertise to, or shove "telemetry" into users.
    - Dylan16807 8y ago
      It wasn't an ad. It shut down before init if you hadn't manually set an about:config value telling it to run. It was set up in a dumb way, but people also grossly misreported. The extension was "enabled" by default but did exactly nothing except shut itself down. The behavior was all disabled by default.
      - msla 8y ago
        > It wasn't an ad. Of course it was. It shilled a TV show.

kodablah 8y ago

It is open source. The icon after a quick search: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/skia/resources/images/google_chrome.ico https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/skia/resour.... Unsure if it's the one that's, say, put in the Windows app manifest. Also unsure if the repo contains all the Chrome resources, but I was under the impression that it did.

codetrotter 8y ago

Most parts of Chrome are open source under the name Chromium. Some DRM stuff in Chrome is not in Chromium and probably some other parts as well.

gsnedders 8y ago
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/docs/c... documents the differences on Linux (given it's the only platform which regularly has both packaged). That does seem to miss the EME CDM, though (I'd write a patch for it, but I'm a bit busy at the moment!).